There remain the two points of climate and vegetation, of which a few examples will suffice. In Sicily, the town of SELINUS, whose magnificence remains preserved in indelible traces upon the soil, took its name from the wild parsley, σἐλινον, which grew plentifully on the ground, and which appears on the coins of the city. In the Scottish Highlands, no local name is more common than that which is familiarly known as the designation of one of the most genuine of the old Celtic chiefs, the head of the clan Macpherson--we mean the word CLUNY (Gaelic _cluain_; possibly only a variety of _grün_, green), which signifies simply a green meadow, a vision often very delightful to a pedestrian after a long day’s tramp across brown brae and gray fell in those parts. The abundance of oak in ancient Celtic regions, where it is not so common now, is indicated by the frequency of the termination _darach_ (from which DERRY, in Ireland, is corrupted; Greek δρûς and δόρυ, as in the designation of one of the Campbells in Argyle, AUCHIN-DARROCH, _i.e._ oak-field. The pine, _giubhas_, appears in KINGUSSIE, pine-end, in the midst of that breezy open space which spreads out to the north-west of the Braemar Grampians. In BEITH and AULTBEA (birch-brook) we have _beath_, Latin _betula_, a birch-tree; elm and ash are rare; heather, _fraoch_, especially in the designation of islands, as EILEANFRAOCH, in Loch Awe, and another in the Sound of Kerrera, close by Oban. Of climate we find traces in AUCHNASHEEN (_sian_), on the open blasty road between Dingwall and Janetown, signifying the field of wind and rain; in MEALFOURVONIE, the broad hill of the frosty moor, composed of the three roots _maol_ (broad and bald), _fuar_ (cold), and _mhonaid_ (upland); in BALFOUR (cold town), and in the remarkable mountain in Assynt called CANISP, which appears to be a corruption of _Ceann-uisge_, or Rainy-head. Lastly, of animals: _madadh_, a fox, appears in LOCHMADDY and ARDMADDY; _coin_, of a dog, in ACHNACHOIN, or Dog’s-field, one of the three bloody spots that mark the butchery of the false Campbell in Glencoe; and, throwing our glance back two thousand years, in CYNOSCEPHALÆ, or the Dog’s-head, in Thessaly, where the sturdy Macedonian power at last bowed in submission before the proud swoop of the Roman eagles; the familiar cow (_baa_, Lat. _bos_) gives its name to that fair loch, which sleeps so quietly in the bosom of beautiful Mull; while the goat, famous also in the sad history of Athenian decline at AIGOSPOTAMI, or the Goat’s-river, gives its name to the steepy heights of ARDGOUR (from _gobhar_, Lat. _caper_), a fragment of the old inheritance of the Macleans, which rise up before the traveller so majestically as he steams northward from Ballachulish to Fort William and Banavie.